Exiles of Colsec

by Douglas Arthur Hill

Book Overview

When a space craft carrying twelve youthful offenders, who have in someway rebelled against the Earth's harshly authoritarian society, crash lands on an alien planet, the six survivors must contend with the planet's hostile life forms.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553272330
• ISBN13: 9780553272338
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Starfire
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Memorable

I read this book 20yrs ago when I was 12, and really enjoyed it. Maybe I would find these books ridiculous today, but this book and series appealed to me enough in middle school that I can pretty clearly recall them, and I've always been a voracious reader who cruised through many long forgotten titles as a kid.

Memorable read

I read this book in the [...], and [...] later, I can still remember some of the mental images from it. Definitely an enjoyable read for young sci-fi fans and a nice break from Star Trek novels and the like.

Kids' fiction at its best

It's sometime in an Orwellian future, where any dissenter is deported to a newfound inhabitable planet. A prison ship develops a glitch, however; it crashes on the destination planet, killing half of the deportees. Five survivors--a rugged outdoorsman, an empathic computer tech, and three tough street kids--band together against hostile aliens and a psychotic ex-M.P. who also survives the crash.While not particularly deep--it was written for teenagers, after all--"Exiles" was an exciting read.

Excellent book!!!!!!!!!!!!

The "Exiles of Colsec" is the best of the Colsec trilogy. It is an exciting, creative Sci-fi book. Douglas Hill has written an incredibly imaginative book here.